Unforgiveness and Matthew 6:14-15

--"For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
"But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.-- Matthew 6:14-15

I'm currently reading an excellent, excellent book called The Bait of Satan by John Bevere. It's about offense and how we hold on to it, and how toxic it truly is. Here is an excerpt, a powerful testimony from chapter 11:

--I wonder how many Christians would want God to forgive them in the same way they have forgiven those who have offended them....
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I heard an unusual testimony about a minister in the Philippines. Friends of mine who had known him from a previous ministry showed me an article telling me about his experiences. The man had resisted the call of God on his life for several years because of his business success. He was making a large amount of money. His disobedience eventually caught up with him, and he was rushed to the hospital because of heart failure.

He died on the operating table and found himself outside the gates of heaven. Jesus was standing there and dealt with him about his disobedience. The man pleaded with the Lord that if He would extend His life, he would serve Him. The Lord consented.
Before sending him back to his body, the Lord showed him a vision of hell. He saw his wife's mother burning in the flames of hell.
He was amazed. She had said the 'sinner's prayer', confessed to being a Christian and had attended church. "Why is she in hell?" he asked the Lord.
The Lord told him that she had refused to forgive a relative and therefore could not be forgiven.--

After reading this I nearly wept. I cried out to God to reveal ANY and ALL areas of unforgiveness of my life should there be any. Any and all, no matter how trivial I may think it to be. I want it all gone. But thankfully I don't have to worry about finding this on my own strength. I trust in the Holy Spirit to reveal whatever needs to be revealed. I pray and ask, and let God do the rest.

Is there someone in your life whom you need to forgive?

Mate, many believers suffer unnecessary because of unforgiveness.

We forgive one another, the same, as we love one another.

But, the sad things about forgiveness that those who call out for forgiveness of a terrible sin that they believe is unforgivable, don’t seem to be able recognised that they are forgiven. Even though our Lord Jesus Christ has forgiven them, they don’t feel forgiven, and the reason for that, is that, they haven’t forgiven themselves.

Many, never realise that they have offended other people, and they don’t ask them for forgiveness.

I’ve had a terrible incident over the last few days with an unbeliever over nothing, but each time I tried to heal the wounds the enemy would come along and steal, destroy, and kill any good I could do. Now, I forgive these people for their attitude, but because they believe they are right and have been wronged, they want blood. So, even if I may have offended them, by becoming impatient with their attitude, and a lost a bit of self-control in feeling angry, they wouldn’t consider any forgiveness.

And in these sorts of incidents we take it to our Lord Jesus Christ and ask HIM to take our requests to those people for their forgiveness.

By taking it all to HIM, then all spiritual consequences and rights of Satan and his forces are cancelled.

Blessings.

Child-of-Zion said:

Is there someone in your life whom you need to forgive?

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Too many.